"Surely, you must accept that now is the time to speak up. Now that there's an official declaration of war. You can't keep pleading ignorance in good faith." But Ben shook his head. "I still don't know enough." This was the third time Lola had used a casual meetup to argue that Ben needed to speak out publicly against the Israeli occupation of Palestine. He was getting quite fed up with this. "I don't know enough to say anything," he said. "I'll do some reading, and maybe once I feel like I know something, I'll 'speak out'. Until then, can we just enjoy a coffee, and talk about something else?" Lola, who generally enjoyed prodding and teasing Ben, but had spent the previous night watching live footage of bombings along the Gaza strip, couldn't take it this time. "You call yourself a leftist, but you're so willing to ignore settler colonialism as long as it's happening in the Middle East, where you